tax
/tæks/ noun B1- Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
- A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
- A burdensome demand · a heavy tax on time or health
Plural taxes
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He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.
“What we pay rates and taxes for I don’t know, when any ruffian can come in and break one’s goods.
The two girls had been whispering to each other during the whole visit; and the result of it was, that the youngest should tax Mr.
“If he were safely out of the country it would relieve the tax-payer of a burden.”
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